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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, TUESDAY, AUGUST 29, 1939.

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THERE was perhaps never a time when the peoples of two

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PERANA DE BALNEARIO 2010 1909 190 191 mind and temper has been

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TO-MORROW THE

KING'S

MURDERESS?

The police said "YES!"

The press condemned herl

Her husband wandered!

BUT CHARLIE CHAN SAID "NO!"

CHARLIE CHAN IN RENO SIDNEY TOLER

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Only the MOVIETONE NEWS cameraman was permitted to accom- pany the fleet of that good-will cruise around South Amerles during which the storm was encountered.

The cameraman was Bonney Powell (known to many in Hongkong) who lashed himself to the superstructure of one of the ships and took the storm scenes at risk of death!

ALSO

incisively demonstrated before the world in speeches which are happily summed

M. up in Daladier's, reply yesterday to Herr Hitler. M. Daladier has told the German lender what everyone knows to be the plain truth. that neither Britain, France nor Poland threaten any-

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"Big Bill" IRONSIDE

The man who has been given the job

Sir John French held on Aug. 4, 1914

QUIPPED from birth

was

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with great ability and a name which is a joy to roll round the tongue, Bir Edmund Ironside has been something of a prodigy.

Ho

made Major- Ic General at the age of 39. is only 50 now. From his earliest days in the Army he has been marked out as n man who will rise high and, what is more. distinguish himself not so much in Whitehall as in the neld.

He is said to be Bft. 4in. tall. But no one has been brave enough to measure him accu- rately. His nick-name is "Big Bill."

He knows a great any lan- guages. He has passed interpreter- ship examinations in seven, And he has a good working knowledge of about half a dozen more, includ- ing Russian.

Like many soldiers, he learns his languages by building up a big vocabulary. He makes a list of words on a post-card each morn- ing and learns it by heart during the day.

Ilis knowledge of the nations now coming together into a peace bloc is intimate, but somewhat unfortunate.

In 1910 and 1919 he was in command at Archangel of all the anti-Bolshevik forces In North Ritasla.

In 1920 he was in command of troops in Anatolla when Kemal was defying the armies of Britain and France and building modern Turkey. But Ironside and the Turks never actually came blows.

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Ironside has a sort of "Bulldog Drummond "reputation. There is even a legend that during the Boer War he squeezed a Boer to death in his arnis.

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He was sent to the Boer War immediately after joining the Army. He was in the Royal Artil- lery and

mentioned W33 dispatches:

The next Ironside legend sprang up shortly before the war at the time of the German, campaign in South West Africa Against the Hereros. As he spoke Dutch perfectly he was able to disguise himself as a Boer and attach him- self to the German forces,

body or intend to threaten any-The Man From body, and that neither will turn

a deaf ear to requests for the equitable redress of grievances. M. Daladier also asserts, how- ever, that the, democracies are resolved to resist aggression, defend liberties and fulfil their pledges.

It has often been urged by apologists in Germany and by critics at Home that no one is quite certain of Great Britain's

intentions: Whatever may have been the truth of the matter then, no such charge can lie now. Neither the Germau Government nor any other has an iota of for misunderstanding Britain's purpose.

excuse

If Germany chooses to throw | down the gauntlet on the premise that Britain has no intention of carrying out its pledge, she will

Devil's Island

TRAPPED AFTER · 23

YEARS

PARIS.

He

AFTER enjoying 23 years of

liberty since he escaped from Devil's Island, Alphonse Dupont, known in the Paris underworld as "Fan Fan," was trapped by the French police recently,

Burglar and drug dealer who has twice been sent to France's dreaded convict island, he is now seeing the inside of a prison for the first time

since 1910.

SOLD DRUGS IN TAXI His identity was revealed after his arrest in Montmartre for drug deal-

become promptly aware of its ing.

falsity. So long as she is con- tent to remain within her frontiers no question of her encirclement or invasion can arise.

It is permissible to doubt

Sea baby Prince Edward trying to throw a pillow at the Trooping whether, in the long run, peace

of the Colours.

CANTON AGENTS for the

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The attention of the special police In the hunting who are engaged down of drug traffickers was called to a well-dressed grey-haired man of respectable appearance who mode" a tour of the Montmartre and Mont- parnasse districts,

He stopped at certain points where

people walled for him and entered: his taxi-cab. They stepped out can be preserved if the Nazis, again after the cob. had gone a few however, are minded to keep hundred yards.

The under

taxl-cob

his "shop" หลง Europe

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where he sold drugs to his "cus nervous strain and are prevented | tomers." from embarking on some cherish-

TWICE SENTENCED ed aggression only by the fear

Dupont first went to Devil's Islund of the resistance they will mest. in 1805, for eight years after a series If they genuinely want peace, of burglarles. When he returned to France after serving his time he they must behave as if they committed more burglaries and in wanted it, and not as if peace 1011 was sentenced to 12 years' were a mere suspension of war. penal servitude. But unless and until their con- Back at Devil's Island it took him duct manifests such

five years to plan his escape with trans-, five

other convicts. He reached formation, there is no recourse the coast of Brazil, lived there for for the rest of us but to improve two years and afterwards went to where he lived for 18 our every precaution and to make certainty doubly sure that any aggression will recoil upon the head of the aggressor..

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Venezuela

years.

Home-sick, he contrived to return. to Paris under another name about

two years. BED.

was put in charge of the native convoys.

In this way he managed to make, full notes of German military methods. He stitched the note books into the lining of his tunic and brought them safely nome.

Then when the Great War broke out he was ald to be the first uni- formed British officer to land on French soll. He was a captain at the time, and went to Boulogne to sce about trains for the first units of the original B.E.F.

He became famous among the troops in France for his habit of taking his brindled bulldog with him everywhere-even into the front line. The dog's collar was decorated with the Mons ribbon and two wound stripes.

In August, 1918, when he was sent off to Archangel to command the British forces in Russia, he was supposed to stop the Germans from seizing Allied war supplies. theke.

Three months later the Great War ended. Yet the British forces at Archangel were told to fight on.

Sir Edmund has written for the Encyclopedia Britannica a tren- chant account of the Archangel campaign. He expinins, with some bitterness, how, when the troops under his command found that the Germans

were

no longer the enemy, and that the Bolsheviks were the new adversary, it had a demoralising effect upon ranks.

"The allied troops," he says, "were never again quite clear as to the reasons for the continuance of the fighting."

The position of the British troops in North Russia became more and more serious and by the end of the summer of 1019 all of them had to be evacuated. Ironside was then made a Major-General and sent to Turkey to command the force at Ismrtil.

In 1922 Sir Edmund came back to England to be commandant of the Staff College at Camberley.

In that post he was responsible for training officers for the higher ranks of the army and he left a decided inprint on British military thought.

Here are a few of his sayings about warfare:-

"The most difficult military feat Is to gauge the proper size for an expeditionary torce. Its numbers are always too small."

My poor brain says. Pay the Door Regular soldier a bit more.""

The British genius is for im- provisation, but will there be time for Improvisation in the next war?"

"

"Do not blame the stupid gene- ral too much. Remember that soldiers cannot learn their trade in

peace time."

After four years at the Staff College he was given command of the 2nd Division at Aldershot. In. 1028 he went for three years to India to be 0.0.0. nt Meerut.

Then he came home to be Lieutenant of the Tower of Lon- don. There were some doubts about that. The Tower was thought to be'a plate of retirement and some people wondered whether it meant that Sir Edmund's career was coming to an end,

But auon he went back to India again as Quarter-Master General. And then in 1930 ho returned to England to take up the £3,300 a year Eastern Command.

He sprang into the public eye once more over the Sandys case. It was he who was instructed by the Army Council to cause a court of inquiry to be set up to inquire Into the leakage of military Information.

A few weeks later Sir Edmund Ironside became Governor of alb- raltar, the post he occupies now.

were com- Once again there plaints. Gibraltar was said to be a retiring place for distinguished old soldiers. And Ironside was not old. But he has not wasted his time In Gibraltar. Under his orders barricades have been bullt on Gib-

altar's Spanish frontier.

He has ideas on AR.P. very dif- Lorent from Sir John Anderson's. He has had deep shelters hewn out of the solid rock of Gibraltar.

British foreign policy in Spain has done its best to make a present of Gibraltar to the Axis, Ironside has done all a soldier can do to stop the rot.

When Sir Edmund returns to England and goes to the War Ofee, you may be sure that he will still be accompanied by a dog. In the Bandys crisis he walked to the inquiry with a pipe in his mouth and a terrier straining at a lead which he clutched in his hand.

Hig shoulders are broad, as suits his immense height. His legs are slim and athletic, giving him a top-heavy appearance.

He is married and has a son and daughter. Their home is at Hing- ham, Norfolk.

Such is the man who now holds the position Sir John French held on August 4, 1914.

W. S.

South Africa Makes Munitions

When Anguish Wrings

The Brow

"WOMEN and Children

First!"

The stirring phrase more often than not conjures up a vision of the bronzed (but slightly pale beneath the tan), blue-uniformed, gold- braided, becapped, capable officer sternly stemming the turbulent tide of panic-stricken steerage passengers;, he wraps the trembling babe within his pilot packet ere the weeping mother slips within the lifeboat; the proceedings usually cul- minating in the dispassionate presentation of his very own! lifebelt to the corn-haired daughter of the fat old multi- millionaire, now quivering in the background,

The heroine, mirabile dictu, has remainined throughout the storm and stress unshaken as to morale and unrumed habiliments.

to

crowd Or the spell-bound gather in the streaming strect and cheer the valiant firemen setting up gargantuan ladders against the burning pile, of course to succour first the ter- ror-stricken fascinated females.

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So, can we be blamed if the

first re-action to the suave invitation of authority to make known the fact of our existence was a distinct inflation of the ego, a complacent ascendency in the sense of self-importance, a responsive thrill to the (sup- posed) official gallantry towards a section of the populace not lightly to be sacrificed, 100 precious and too essential to the scheme of things, needlessly to be endangered?

Alas! Realisation Was που long delayed.

Reason asserted away. And the noticeable slump in self- conceit and premature com-

placence chilled the more by the

sudden descent of temperature from its misplaced exhiliration.

Let the truth be swallowed,

JOHANNESBURG, South Africa (UP)-Aerial bombs are now being manufactured on a fairly large scale vaal. Commercial production hus been started by two well-known from being instigated by any engineering firms, one in Johannes- thought of fragile beauty, ster- burg and the other at Benoni,

lems 10-day is how to cover the on the Witwatersrand, in the Trans-unpalatable thought it be. Far

One of the great tactical prob- last 70 yards to the enemy's poal- Lion."

Woman, 83, Cycling Fan

ling worth; by any undue tender- ness for the gently nurtured Minna Cross, age 83 years. She be- female; any consideration for gan riding when she was 42 and has never given it up. She purchased our delicately-balanced nervous SACRAMENTO, Cal. (UP)-This the No. 1 license plate this year and system, the dulcet invitation

claimed the prl- city's oldest bicycle rider, both as to the city attorney uge and as

to experience, is Missivilege of paying the 25 cent fee.

GRIN AND BEAR IT

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·ARCHEOLOGY EXPEDITION

alas! the Was,

outcome of vulgar, mundane reason very far removed from our romantic

By Lichty conceptions.

"Cracked urns, broken goblets and torn papyrus! Evidently we've unearthed a picnic grove of ancient Thebes!'!

Humiliating and prosaic as it may be, the fact which is crystal clear is that all females however decorative, unless skilled in the arts of succouring the once bellicose but eventually to be incapacitated male, are, in these stirring times, regarded dis- passionately as so many insati- able, gaping jaws clamouring to be filled!

So now we know our true value in times of trouble. Not the very loveliest of the lovelies is deemed a fair equivalent for the modicum of protein, vita- mines and so on necessary for the upkeep and repair of the male.

Those melting eyes so long- ingly and anxiously cast upon the commissariat-those eyes which in days begone morely gave one flutter to secure the prize now, but produce a stern, official "Seram l'i

Our heads are bowed; Romance is dead. Man dispenses, to all appearances unperturbed, with the services of the "ministering angel," deeming them prossical- ly and quite rationally as not be yond all price. N.B.W.